a duly trained catholic child, grew up by nuns, came to the united states at almost 18, and i married, do all the things i was told, and when my husband departed with someone else, i was there to take care of three children, to work, clean up, and education to really make a good salary. i continued taking care of them in when they finished high school, i went and i did my ged and became a nurse. that's my strongest memory of you is one day in the debate, surrounded by men, dealing with a situation of abortion, and they all rant and rave why women shouldn't do it, and you just said, quietly, but you stopped everybody from speaking when you said, gentlemen, remember where we are talking where the territory is. this belongs to her, and if she chooses, her doctor is compliant, but it is not for you to say. those words i passed to my daughters who have grown up to be independent, outrageously self-empowered. what i never had in my youth and in my childhood and growing up years and years as a wife. they have been able to stand by themselves, i put your books in their hands, and i went back